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It’s been rumored for months, and now it’s official: As of the beginning of September, DC Comics is relaunching its entire DC Universe line of superhero comic books with new #1 issues. The surprising part: The entire line will also be available digitally on the day of each issue’s release in comics stores.
Earlier this month, the mythos of SEAL Team 6’s elimination of Osama bin Laden stole headlines by giving ordinary citizens a glimpse into the shadowy penumbra of ultra-elite warfare.
Soon-to-be parents no longer have to endure the trouble of sifting through a seemingly endless book of baby names in search of the perfect one. It’s much, much easier to just let unborn kids choose anyway. That way, they won’t be filled with a lifetime of resentment because they were named “Like” after Facebook or [...]
The Motion Picture Association of America wants you to stop watching movies at home. Specifically, it wants you to stop watching movies streamed online from Zediva, the “place-shifting private performance” site that allows subscribers to rent physical DVDs that are played in one central location, with the playback streamed to your own location through the [...]
Apple’s iWork suite is now available on iPhones and iPod Touches, and it’s free for users who already have the iPad versions.
The future of magazine publishing may be digital, but that future is further away than you’d think, according to Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, who believes that the publishing industry’s push towards digital publishing is a “rush to throw away [the] magazine business [through] just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.”
PS3 owners have been enjoying online play again for the last sixteen days after the weeks-long shutdown necessary to overhaul the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services. But a crucial part of the online offering’s been missing, as Sony’s kept the PlayStation Store offline to further bolster security in the e-commerce portion of PSN.
In Smartphone War Land, it appears that Android’s lead over Apple’s iOS has, at least for now, slowed down, as pointed out in some newly sliced-up Nielsen data from our friends at CNN money.
Apple just pre-announced the iCloud for next week’s Worldwide Developers Conference, but what the company didn’t say — specifically, that it’ll bring the iPhone 5 or other new hardware to the event — is just as important.
According to multiple sources, Twitter is launching its own photo sharing service, spelling bad news for third party options like Twitpic and Yfrog that currently fill the void. Twitter is expected to make the announcement at the D9 conference this week in California.
Bye, Spring. Those five or six days you decided to grace us with your presence sure were nice. Hello, Summer. You are a jerk. People say they like you, but you only serve to make everything hot and uncomfortable.
